しそん
Meanings
Noun
1. descendant; posterity; offspring
Pitch accent
そん
Composed of
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
descendant (usu. of a certain generation); (arch.) lineage; (arch.) pedigree; (arch.) grandchild
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
one's descendants; one's offspring; posterity
perpetuation of one's descendants
generation after generation; (for) generations to come
descendant structure
Examples (3 in total)
We want to leave our descendants a clean and green earth.
These legends should be handed down to our offspring.
What will become of our offspring if a nuclear war breaks out?